CorrespondenceSimple functional imaging of the right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension: Can right ventricular ejection fraction be improved?☆
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Conflict of interest
Dr. Simon reports grants from Aires Pharmaceuticals, personal fees from United Therapeutics, personal fees from Gilead Sciences, Inc, outside the submitted work.
Acknowledgements
This work supported in part by the NIH T32 (T32 HL110849), Translational Program Project Grant (P01 HL103455), and an NHLBI U01 grant HL125208-01 (PVDOMICS).
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Take home message: SV/ESV has a larger physiological range and greater sensitivity compared to RVEF due to a non-linear relationship.
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